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ESMO-ESO Courses on Medical Oncology for Medical Students

These annual five-day residential courses enable students to get a full picture of this challenging and interesting professional field before making the choice of their specialisation.

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ESMO fosters the advancement of cancer research by supporting clinical trials workshops to inspire young oncologists from different disciplines across the globe to become the next generation of active researchers.

Patient Guides

Guides for Patients are designed to assist patients, their relatives and caregivers to better understand the nature of different types of cancer and evaluate the best available treatment choices

Personalised Medicine Explained

Video interviews and articles designed to help patients, policy makers and other non-medical professionals better understand the principles of personalised cancer medicine

Getting the Most out of Your Oncologist

Now available in Romanian, our Guide for Patients with Advanced Cancer is designed for patients, their family members and oncologists.

Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care

The ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care accreditation programme recognises cancer centres which provide comprehensive services in supportive and palliative care as part of their routine care.

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Welcome to OncologyPRO, the home of ESMO’s educational and scientific resources, with Guidelines, a comprehensive list of E-Learning modules, Factsheets on biomarkers, slides and webcasts from our educational programme, and more... to support continuing medical education and daily practice!

Michele Ghielmini

Prof. Michele Ghielmini, MD, is Medical Director of the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland in Bellinzona and Head of the Medical Oncology Department. He is also Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Prof. Ghielmini was born in Ticino, Switzerland. He studied Medicine in Lausanne where he graduated in 1985. He attended his post-graduate studies in Ticino, Zurich and Basel, followed by post-graduate training in Bern and a research fellowship at the Christie Cancer Centre, Manchester, UK and at the University Hospital of Frankfurt Germany.

He achieved the specialisation in Internal Medicine in 1993 and in Medical Oncology in 1995. In 2001 he achieved the title of Privat Dozent at the University of Bern where he was appointed Honorary Professor in 2007.

As an expert in the treatment of malignant lymphoma, Prof Ghielmini was for several years member of the editorial board of Annals of Oncology and of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Prof. Ghielmini is member of the Lymphoma Section of the Swiss Group for Clinical research against Cancer (SAKK), which he chaired from 2001 to 2006 and of which he is still a member. He is Chair of the ESMO OncologyPRO Working Group and member of the ESMO Educational Committee.

Prof. Ghielmini has been Chair of several national and international studies in the field of lymphomas. He has authored many publications mainly in the field of haemato-toxicology, autologous stem cell transplantation and treatment of lymphoma.